Romeo, Romeo ... No, it's our Rob and Julie!

One way of deepening understanding of text is to get the children to dress up and act it out! My class had a lot of fun creating their very own modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet, using freeze-frame and tableaux. Filming and photographing their work enabled the children to produce photostories, films, blogs and comic strips.Freeze framing, tableaux and other ways of bring drama into the classroom are explained in more detail in a downloadable booklet 'Drama in the Classroom' (see below)Look out for 'Short stories from the classroom' where I am starting to write a diary of successful mantles, as well as examples of enquiry based learning - with lots of drama! This will include some retrospective mantles.